Broadway Limited Imports N Scale EMD SD70ACe (2026)

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The SD70ACe finally gets the N scale treatment it deserves.

EMD built the SD70ACe between 2004 and 2014 as the successor to the SD70MAC. A 16-710-G3C-T2 prime mover making 4,300 horsepower, 157,000 lbf of continuous tractive effort and 191,000 at starting — on a redesigned underframe, with the wide radiator, lowered center hood and rear dynamic brakes that make it unmistakable from thirty feet away.

The cab came off the late SD90MAC-H. In 2008 EMD standardized the isolated version after non-isolated cabs were barred from leading BNSF trains for excessive vibration — which is exactly the kind of detail Broadway Limited chose to model rather than average out.

PARAGON4 SOUND/DC/DCC — $237.99 ◆ NO-SOUND / DCC-READY — $169.99

Tooled per prototype, not per paint job

Broadway Limited cut six separate variation axes into this run so each road number matches the real thing:

  • Low and high headlights
  • Isolated and non-isolated cabs
  • Long and short sunshades
  • Two brake wheel styles
  • Three cab roof designs
  • Two blower vent layouts

Underneath: an ABS body over a die-cast chassis for maximum tractive effort, a precision drive built for heavy towing, all-wheel pickup, separately applied handrails, grab irons and bell, Micro-Trains-compatible couplers, and operation on Code 55, 70 and 80 rail down to a 9" radius.

What Paragon4 actually does

  • Rolling Thunder — the low-frequency bass you feel as much as hear
  • Extra onboard capacitance to keep running over dirty or imperfect track
  • Switcher Mode for precision low-speed work, plus Back EMF for a genuinely superb crawl
  • Quillable horn with three selectable horns and adjustable bell interval
  • Pro Lighting Mode — individual control of every light on the model
  • Record & Play — capture sounds and movements and replay them for hands-off operation
  • Prime mover intensity that rises and falls with load
  • Grade crossing and automatic forward/reverse signals
  • High-resolution audio with individually adjustable volume per effect
  • Runs DC or DCC with improved DC speed control — a DCMaster is required for sound in DC

The paint — eight schemes, seven of them prototypical

The ones people came for: Norfolk Southern's 1230 "Birmingham" and 1231 "Atlanta" Office Car Specials, the D&H Heritage unit #1080, and Union Pacific's "The Spirit" #1943. Alongside them: Kansas City Southern's Veterans Day Salute, Canadian National, Florida East Coast, New York Susquehanna & Western, the EMD demonstrator, and the US Navy and US Air Force fantasy schemes.

Most schemes come in both sound and non-sound versions, and several are already down to the last one or two. When a road number sells out here it does not come back — this is a production run, not a catalog item.

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